French Physicists
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Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect (born June 15, 1947) is a French experimental physicist whose tests of Bell inequalities with entangled photons were pivotal for quantum foundations and the rise of quantum information science. He shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics with John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for experiments establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and advancing quantum technologies.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor and religious writer whose work shaped projective geometry, fluid mechanics, probability theory and classical French prose. He devised an early mechanical calculator (the Pascaline), formulated Pascal’s law in hydrostatics, pioneered barometric experiments, and authored the Provincial Letters and the posthumously published Pensées, which includes the famed Pascal’s wager.